Agile project management beyond the software industry : an analysis of success factors and the influence on project performance

Agile has revolutionized the way of working in the IT sector. Over the past two decades it has increased software development success rates and boosted the productivity of IT teams. How- ever, there is a lot of research on agile project management but very little outside the software industry. As more industries adopt agile project management, there is a need for research on agile project management outside the software industry. Fourteen expert interviews with expe- rienced project managers from different industries were analyzed. This research provides new insights into the success factors of agile project management. It contributes to a better under- standing of the impact of this method on product and project performance in different industries. In addition, the results give practitioners a sense of potential hurdles in implementing agile and thus help avoid them.
Jan Dieteren
Masterarbeit University Innsbruck 2022